Information Fusion: Building on the GPS Revolution

Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz

Abstract:	Building on the lessons of Operation Desert Storm and multiple technology revolutions, several Department of Defense developments point to a revolution in future warfare. The Joint Vision 2010 (JV 2010) identifies theater-wide information superiority as the foundation for this revolution. The Advanced Battlespace Information Management System (ABIS) Task Force reports: a federation of systems that forms an underlying grid of flexible, shared, and assured information services and provides advanced capabilities in support of new command and control and force employment concepts. The Air Force New World Vistas, Air and Space Superiority for the 21st Century (NWV) addresses the amazingly superior capabilities which are enabled by the new technologies. Each of these studies identifies the information superiority as a key enabler of revolutionary warfare. An overwhelming amount of information is available to the warfighter. Information fusion technology, integrated with operational concepts, enables transformation of data and information into warfighters’ mission capability. Precise space/time (geometric) reference, the focus of the Navigation Community, is the foundation of information fusion. A similar information and fusion framework and perspective is suggested for the exploding commercial information products and services.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1997 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 14 - 16, 1997 Loews Santa Monica Hotel Santa Monica, CA
Pages:	49 - 56
Cite this article:	Lewantowicz, Zdzislaw H., "Information Fusion: Building on the GPS Revolution," Proceedings of the 1997 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Santa Monica, CA, January 1997, pp. 49-56.
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